An early 1940s rayon scarf designed and manufactured by Filmyra Fabrics
London War Notes
MOLLIE PANTER-DOWNES
There were 153 wartime ‘Letters from London’ for The New Yorker: about ‘the quotidian stream of English life, of what it was like actually to live in a war, of what the government was doing, of the nervous sound of the air-raid sirens, of the disappearance of the egg, of children being evacuated. In a steady flow of copy, directed to editors she had never met at a magazine she had never visited, she un- doubtedly did more to explain wartime England to American readers than any- one else in the field’ (New Yorker obit).
PREFACE BY DAVID KYNASTON
PERSEPHONE BOOKS CATALOGUE
NO 111
Looking north up Lamb’s Conduit Street on the day after the bombing raid on 10th May 1941
480pp PERSEPHONE BOOKS ISBN 9781910263013